Anonymous ID: fdca51 Aug. 25, 2022, 10:12 a.m. No.17441077   🗄️.is đź”—kun

>>17440970

It can be done, but it has to be super simplified and use visual aids. They must be shown.

 

Are you smarter than a 5-year-old? Preschoolers can do algebra, Johns Hopkins study shows

Psychologists say kids rely on their innate number sense to solve for x

 

 

By Latarsha Gatlin / Published Mar 7, 2014

 

Millions of high school and college algebra students are united in a shared agony over solving for x and y.

 

For those to whom the answers don't come easily, it gets worse: Most preschoolers and kindergartners can do some algebra well before entering a math class.

 

In a recent study described in the journal Developmental Science, lead author and postdoctoral fellow Melissa Kibbe and Lisa Feigenson, associate professor of psychological and brain sciences at Johns Hopkins University's Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, found that most preschoolers and kindergartners—children between 4 and 6—can do basic algebra naturally.

 

"These very young children, some of whom are just learning to count, and few of whom have even gone to school yet, are doing basic algebra and with little effort," Kibbe said. "They do it by using what we call their approximate number system, their gut-level, inborn sense of quantity and number."

 

more . . .

 

https://hub.jhu.edu/2014/03/07/preschoolers-algebra-research/